DevOps Engineer Contracts in the North West

Development Operations Engineer
England > North West

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the North West is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 78 55
Rank change year-on-year -8 -23 +6
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 34 59 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.73% 2.14% 3.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.87% 2.27% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 48 98
10th Percentile £357 £420 £475
25th Percentile £390 £444 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £555
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -6.53% -3.48%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £648
90th Percentile £629 £615 £675
England median daily rate £550 £545 £600
% change year-on-year +0.92% -9.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.81
Median hourly rate - £45.88 £46.11
Median % change year-on-year - -0.49% -
75th Percentile - - £49.40
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £82.48 £59.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +38.04% +3.91% +91.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 1,821 2,603 3,030
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 94.48% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,205 1,698 2,172
10th Percentile £250 £281 £300
25th Percentile £378 £393 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £588
90th Percentile £652 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 266 133
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.07 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%
75th Percentile £59.24 £46.18 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.41 £63.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the North West

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North West.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the North West

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the North West

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the North West

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -12 18 £525 +1.20% 28
Cheshire +8 11 £358 -20.00% 6
Lancashire +2 3 £575 -3.36% 10
Merseyside +5 2 £625 +31.58% 3
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) DevOps
2 27 (79.41%) AWS
3 23 (67.65%) CI/CD
4 21 (61.76%) Terraform
5 18 (52.94%) Kubernetes
6 17 (50.00%) Linux
7 15 (44.12%) GitLab
8 14 (41.18%) Python
8 14 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (32.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (32.35%) Jenkins
10 9 (26.47%) GitHub
10 9 (26.47%) Azure
10 9 (26.47%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (26.47%) SQL
11 8 (23.53%) Docker
12 7 (20.59%) Data Pipeline
12 7 (20.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (20.59%) Microservices
12 7 (20.59%) Security Cleared
13 6 (17.65%) Agile
13 6 (17.65%) MongoDB
13 6 (17.65%) High Availability
13 6 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (17.65%) Containerisation
13 6 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
14 5 (14.71%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
14 5 (14.71%) Cloud Security

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (8.82%) Apache
2 3 (8.82%) nginx
2 3 (8.82%) Tomcat
3 2 (5.88%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 27 (79.41%) AWS
2 9 (26.47%) Azure
2 9 (26.47%) GitHub
3 7 (20.59%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (14.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (14.71%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (11.76%) Amazon S3
6 4 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (8.82%) AWS KMS
8 2 (5.88%) Entra ID
8 2 (5.88%) GCP
8 2 (5.88%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (2.94%) IaaS
9 1 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) DNS
2 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) MongoDB
2 4 (11.76%) Data Lake
3 3 (8.82%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (5.88%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (44.12%) GitLab
2 11 (32.35%) Jenkins
3 5 (14.71%) Git
4 2 (5.88%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (5.88%) CA Release Automation
4 2 (5.88%) JIRA
4 2 (5.88%) SonarQube
4 2 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (5.88%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.94%) Maven
General
1 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Military
4 2 (5.88%) Finance
5 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) .NET
1 3 (8.82%) cloud-init
1 3 (8.82%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (8.82%) OAuth
1 3 (8.82%) Spring Boot
2 2 (5.88%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.88%) pytest
3 1 (2.94%) ADO
3 1 (2.94%) Kafka
3 1 (2.94%) Keycloak
3 1 (2.94%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (2.94%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (50.00%) Linux
2 11 (32.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (11.76%) Unix
3 4 (11.76%) Windows
4 3 (8.82%) CentOS
5 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (67.65%) CI/CD
3 14 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (26.47%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (20.59%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (20.59%) Microservices
6 6 (17.65%) Agile
6 6 (17.65%) Containerisation
6 6 (17.65%) High Availability
7 5 (14.71%) Cloud Security
7 5 (14.71%) Process Improvement
8 4 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (11.76%) Customer Acquisition
8 4 (11.76%) Load Balancing
8 4 (11.76%) Migration
8 4 (11.76%) Performance Metrics
8 4 (11.76%) Resource Allocation
8 4 (11.76%) Secrets Management
8 4 (11.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) Python
2 9 (26.47%) SQL
3 5 (14.71%) Bash
4 3 (8.82%) Go
4 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.88%) Perl
5 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.94%) Bicep
6 1 (2.94%) Java
6 1 (2.94%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (61.76%) Terraform
2 18 (52.94%) Kubernetes
3 5 (14.71%) Kibana
4 4 (11.76%) Ansible
4 4 (11.76%) Grafana
4 4 (11.76%) Istio
4 4 (11.76%) Packer
4 4 (11.76%) Prometheus
5 3 (8.82%) Kustomize
6 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.94%) Consul
7 1 (2.94%) Graylog
7 1 (2.94%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (2.94%) linkerd
7 1 (2.94%) Puppet
7 1 (2.94%) Rancher
7 1 (2.94%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) AppDynamics
2 3 (8.82%) Splunk
3 2 (5.88%) Cisco
3 2 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.94%) Databricks
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.94%) Okta
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle